Re: Re: [PATCH] drm/atomic-helpers: remove legacy_cursor_update hacks

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:17:21PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 06:09:05AM +0000, Jason-JH Lin (林睿祥) wrote:
> > Hi Maxime, Daniel,
> > 
> > We encountered similar issue with mediatek SoCs.
> > 
> > We have found that in drm_atomic_helper_commit_rpm(), when disabling
> > the cursor plane, the old_state->legacy_cursor_update in
> > drm_atomic_wait_for_vblank() is set to true.
> > As the result, we are not actually waiting for a vlbank to wait for our
> > hardware to close the cursor plane. Subsequently, the execution
> > proceeds to drm_atomic_helper_cleanup_planes() to  free the cursor
> > buffer. This can lead to use-after-free issues with our hardware.
> > 
> > Could you please apply this patch to fix our problem?
> > Or are there any considerations for not applying this patch?
> 
> Mostly it needs someone to collect a pile of acks/tested-by and then land
> it.
> 
> I'd be _very_ happy if someone else can take care of that ...
> 
> There's also the potential issue that it might slow down some of the
> legacy X11 use-cases that really needed a non-blocking cursor, but I think
> all the drivers where this matters have switched over to the async plane
> update stuff meanwhile. So hopefully that's good.

I think there was also a regression with msm no one really figured out?

Maxime

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